The songs of the cicada

Posted on 5 June 2007 | 9 Comments

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What is that thing? That (my friends) is a cicada and right now in the Chicago area they are everywhere. There are places (such as where the pictures here were taken) that you can find up to 1.5 million of these insects per acre. (1.5 million!) Luckily for us here in northern Illinois, these cicadas are of the genus of 17 year periodical cicadas of eastern North America called magicicadas. They are often called the “seventeen-year locust”, but they are not locusts.

The group of cicadas that is invading right now can be further classified as brood XIII or the northern Illinois brood which emerge every 17 years to mate, lay eggs, and then (in a few weeks) die. No worries as the red-eyed insects don’t sting or bite. They just buzz. It can be (however) almost deafening at times and drown out lawnmowers, motorcycles, and make it almost impossible to even have a conversation outdoors. Ravinia (an outdoor concert venue) in Highland Park has even moved the date of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra concert into July to accommodate the noise of the cicadas (story here). Heck, people have even been eating cicadas.

Instead of recipes for cicada tempura, here are some of the cicada-related songs I’ve come across recently. There are many.

MP3 | Cicada – Electric Blue
MP3 | Bindu – Cicada
MP3 | Gum – Cicada Material
MP3 | Editors – Munich (Cicada Remix)
MP3 | Destination Moon – Cicada
MP3 | Justin Martin – Cicada
MP3 | Fursaxa – Song To The Cicada
MP3 | Gescom – Cicada
MP3 | Kiyoshi Mizutani – Cicada At Mt. Hinobikoramaru
MP3 | Nocturnal Emissions – Talpa Cicada
MP3 | Silverchair – Cicada
MP3 | Michio Kurihara – The Last Cicada

MP3 | Odessi – Over Again (Cicada Radio)
MP3 | Sleepytime Gorilla Museum – The 17 Year Cicada
MP3 | V/A Malaysia – The Cicada Herngo D
MP3 | Taeko Onuki – Cicada
MP3 | The Burning Season – Year Of The Cicada
MP3 | Timewriter – Cicada
MP3 | Autopilot Off – The Cicada’s Song
MP3 | Michio Kurihara – Canon In C (C Is For Cicada)
MP3 | Noodreem – Cicada Wave (Acacia Tree Dub)
MP3 | French TV – My Little Cicada

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